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Are conducted. and those are just some of the issues the supreme court will face and what looks like it will be another blockbuster term. >> unfortunately it is a term that we'll have to cover without you because today is your last day at nbc news. and i'm sure it has been a week of red cheeks for you and embarrassment, but i have to just say from one who has had the joy of working with you only a brief couple of years, it has been a true career highlight to toss to you. i know i spoke for even when i say the impervious commitment to the facts and nothing else is truly the gold standard. >> i'...

More reporting. i know you've been working your sources. what have you learned? >> reporter: this announcement is coming quite early. there are still five months left in the supreme court's term. most justices that have announced their retirement in the past haven't done so until at least march. the 83-year-old justice has said in the past he would consider two things when deciding to leave, his health and the court w. no known health issue it is clear the court is his main reason for leaving after almost three decades on the court. he has spoken extensively over the past year and has even wri...

Court. and i think we are looking at a situation where there will likely be four women on the supreme court for the first time in history. it wasn't all that long ago that there were no women on the supreme court. you're looking like the only liberals will be women, sonia sotomayor and elena kagan and president biden's nominee. the voting will not be all that different at least in the short term. but this is a very big deal. this will be a considerable reinforcement for justices sotomayor and kagan who would be the last two liberals, if breyer stayed on, to be replaced by a conservative. it do...

It is now solidly 6-3 in favor of conservatives. we've seen justice breyer in recent weeks join fiery dissents with his two other similarly minded justices. sonia sotomayor and elena kagan, in the vaccine mandate case that came from the biden administration and dissents in the decisions allowing the texas abortion ban to stay in place. so justice breyer has been outspoken but there is still a lot more work to do in this term and now there's work to do for the white house, determining who will be the next nominee. we understand that there are probably two names leading contenders. president bid...

Retirement in january is plenty of time to seat someone by the end of the summer. >> but he's not retiring until the end of the term, right? >> well, but the process will move quickly. one of the questions of senator durbin will he hold hearings on a nominee before there's an official vacancy. that's been done in the past. all that have will have to be worked out. the time is not a problem for the democrats and it's worth keeping in mind that the president of the united states is someone who knows a lot about supreme court confirmations. he was chairman of the judiciary committee, he was ranki...